Police: Databases

Lynne Jones: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many crime scene marks are outstanding on police databases.

Tony McNulty: As at 25 April 2008, the IDENT1 database contained one, 696,286 unidentified crime scene marks—these being a combination of palm and finger marks. This represents the accumulation of such marks over the years from the various systems that migrated into NAFIS in 1999, which was then superseded by IDENT1 in 2005.